Stentor

From Latin Stentōr, from Ancient Greek Στέντωρ (Sténtōr), the name of a herald in the Iliad who had a loud voice.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɛnˌtɔr/

Stentor f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Stentoridae – certain large chromists whose shape resembles a trumpet.

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Chromista - kingdom; Harosa - subkingdom; Halvaria - infrakingdom; Alveolata - superphylum; Ciliophora - phylum; Postciliodesmatophora - subphylum; Heterotrichea - class; Heterotrichida - order; Stentoridae - family

• (genus): Stentor coeruleus, Stentor mulleri, Stentor polymorphus, Stentor roeseli - selected species

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• Stentor at World Register of Marine Species

From Latin Stentōr, from Ancient Greek Στέντωρ (Sténtōr).

Stentor

1. A herald in the Iliad celebrated for his loud voice.
   • 1899, Aristotle, The Politics of Aristotle, page 172:

     For who can be the general of such a vast multitude, or who the herald, unless he have the voice of a Stentor?

2. (astronomy) The Jovian asteroid 2146 Stentor.

• stentorian
• stentorious

• snotter

From Ancient Greek Στέντωρ (Sténtōr).

Stentōr m (genitive Stentoris); third declension

1. Stentor

Third-declension noun.

• Stentoreus

• “Stentor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Stentor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.